Almost Final Results of Admission to the HACC Competition: 158 Participants Will Proceed to Evaluation

On September 18, the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) reached the final stage in admitting 205 applicants to the qualification evaluation for 23 vacant judicial positions at the High Anti-Corruption Court. 

Over two days, the Commission, after reviewing the submitted applications and documents, admitted 158 (77.5%) judges, lawyers, and scholars to the next stage of the competition. At this stage, almost seven candidates are competing for each vacant position.

The following applicants were admitted:

1. Andrii Andrushko
2. Viktor Antypenko
3. Viktoriia Babanina 
4. Nataliia Baeva
5. Viktoriia Bazeliuk
6. Anton Baida
7. Yevhen Baranovskyi
8. Oleh Batiuk
9. Viktoriia Bereziuk
10. Yuliia Bobrova
11. Yurii Bodnaruk
12. Oleksandr Boiko
13. Volodymyr Bubleinyk
14. Yevhenii Vainovskyi
15. Oleksandr Vernyhor 
16. Volodymyr Vikhlyaiev
17. Maksym Hloba
18. Nataliia Hlushchenko
19. Bohdan Holovinov
20. Oleh Holovkov 
21. Mykhailo Hrabynskyi
22. Nazar Hryn
23. Oleksii Huzovatyi
24. Oksana Hutsal
25. Andrii Davydenko
26. Sofiia Danyliv
27. Svitlana Demchenko
28. Yevhen Didenko 
29. Nazar Dilnyi
30. Mariia Dmytriieva
31. Artem Donets
32. Nataliia Doroshenko
33. Vitalii Dubas 
34. Andrii Dudikov
35. Oleksandr Dudchenko
36. Dmytro Diachenko
37. Oksana Yevlakh
38. Oleksii Yevtushenko 
39. Valerii Yehorov
40. Mykola Zhuk 
41. Oleksandr Zavhorodnii
42. Oleksii Zaitsev
43. Serhii Ivaniv 
44. Andrii Ivanov
45. Oleksandr Ivasyn
46. Yevhen Kapitonov
47. Andrii Kapura
48. Stanislav Kashchenko
49. Viktoriia Kytsiuk
50. Oleh Kimstachov
51. Yana Kinakh
52. Oleksandr Kitov
53. Mykyta Klymenko
54. Oksana Knyzhenko
55. Denys Kovalenko
56. Serhii Kovalchuk
57. Snizhana Kolesnyk
58. Olha Kolos
59. Tetiana Kononenko
60. Ihor Korzhuk
61. Oleksandr Korolenko
62. Vitalii Koriahin
63. Maryna Kostenko
64. Oleh Kostiuk 
65. Dmytro Kravets
66. Ivan Kravchenko
67. Oleksandr Kravchuk
68. Yurii Krasnenko
69. Dmytro Kratko
70. Tetiana Kryklyva
71. Vitalii Kryklyvyi
72. Serhii Kuvakin
73. Iryna Kuzina 
74. Oleksii Kulabukhov
75. Alfiia Kurbanova
76. Svitlana Kustova
77. Vladyslav Kukhta 
78. Halyna Lavryk
79. Oleksandr Leonov 
80. Oleh Lutsenko
81. Vitaliia Maier
82. Ihor Maister
83. Ihor Makaryk
84. Roman Maksymovych
85. Ninel Marchenko
86. Oleh Marchuk 
87. Viktor Maslov 
88. Vita Matolych
89. Nataliia Makhno
90. Marian Mytsak
91. Natalia Mytsak 
92. Dmytro Mizevych
93. Daria Minchenko 
94. Dmytro Movchan
95. Natalia Movchan
96. Ivan Mukan
97. Yevhenii Mushak
98. Stanislav Nesterenko
99. Ihor Nikitchuk
100. Oleksandr Norochevskyi
101. Svitlana Obolienska
102. Ihor Omelian
103. Dmytro Ostapenko 
104. Oleksandr Ostrohliad
105. Oksana Pavlenko
106. Iryna Pashkevych
107. Olha Pevna
108. Oleksandr Pelykh
109. Mykola Pika
110. Andrii Polikanov
111. Ivan Posokhov 
112. Oleksandr Prokhorov
113. Oleksandr Radutnyi
114. Yuliia Retynska
115. Volodymyr Rybalko
116. Serhii Rykov
117. Vladyslav Rikhter
118. Andreia Rozdorozhna
119. Olena Roik
120. Petro Romanenko
121. Mykola Rubashchenko
122. Yurii Ruschak
123. Aryna Sviatoshniuk
124. Maksym Semenov
125. Viktoriia Semko 
126. Kateryna Sierikova 
127. Serhii Syvokin
128. Tetiana Symonova
129. Kateryna Sikora
130. Lesia Skreklia
131. Sviatoslav Slyvka
132. Inna Smal
133. Inesa Sobolieva 
134. Anna Sokratova
135. Oleh Soloviov
136. Oksana Steblynska
137. Eduard Stomatov
138. Yevhen Strilchenko
139. Ihor Strohyi
140. Olena Tanasevych
141. Iryna Teslenko
142. Maksym Tyden
143. Iryna Tokarska
144. Tetiana Troian
145. Maksym Turchynskyi
146. Andrii Fedoronchuk
147. Yevhen Fedosieiev 
148. Oleh Khamkhodera
149. Kostiantyn Kharakoz
150. Vadym Khodko
151. Viktor Tsytriak
152. Ihor Chaikin
153. Viacheslav Shamrai
154. Pavlo Shtifonov
155. Andrii Yunusov
156. Serhii Yurko
157. Tamara Yaroshenko
158. Marta-Mariia Yatsynina

At the same time, the Commission DID NOT admit the following 46 candidates:

1. Oksana Batchenko
2. Inna Berdnik
3. Maryna Bohush
4. Svitlana Brazaluk
5. Olena Vakulenko
6. Andrii Vovk
7. Oleksandr Volochniuk
8. Andrii Halyshyn
9. Aliona Huk
10. Nataliia Huk
11. Oleksii Dieiev
12. Serhii Dovhal
13. Vasyl Zaitsev
14. Olha Koban
15. Anton Kosenko
16. Hryhorii Krainyk 
17. Liudmyla Krasnopolska
18. Ivan Kruzhylov
19. Dmytro Kuznietsov
20. Khrystyna Kuzmiv 
21. Olha Lemishchenko
22. Oleksii Makivskyi
23. Andrii Mylanych
24. Liubomyr Moisei
25. Valerii Nikitchenko
26. Daria Nikolaienko
27. Liliia Orel
28. Iryna Pavliuk
29. Inessa Pozniak
30. Andrii Polishchuk
31. Vitalii Prydatko
32. Oleh Radionov 
33. Olena Riepnikova
34. Serhii Roiak
35. Liubov Savonik
36. Oleksandr Sarafaniuk
37. Viacheslav Slavinskyi
38. Pavlo Slipchuk
39. Yuliia Stusenko
40. Tetiana Tereshchenko
41. Kateryna Tytarenko
42. Svitlana Tokova
43. Dmytro Fedorov
44. Oleksandr Yakovlev
45. Dmytro Yaprakh
46. Oleksii Yasiunetskyi.

The most common reasons for rejection, as in the previous competition, were: 

• Failure to submit a declaration of the absence of circumstances provided for in Article 7(4) of the Law of Ukraine on the High Anti-Corruption Court 
• Failure to confirm the required professional legal experience
• Failure to submit a copy of the diploma with transcripts
• Failure to provide a certificate of proficiency in the state language.

Interestingly, in the previous HACC competition, the most frequent reasons for disqualification also included failure to submit declarations (asset, integrity, or family ties). This time, such issues were largely absent.

As of now, the HQCJ has not decided on the admission of only one candidate — Vitalii Humeniuk, Chief Consultant of the Secretariat of the Central Election Commission, regarding whom a recusal motion was filed by one of the Commission members. The admission of this last applicant will be resolved on September 29 at 09:30.

The admitted participants will next face a qualification exam and interviews with the HQCJ and the PCIE. 

The exam will consist of written tests and a practical assignment, with the Commission already publishing a tentative testing schedule:

• October 1, 2025 – test on the history of Ukrainian statehood
• October 13, 2025 – test on general legal knowledge and knowledge of the specialization of the relevant court
• October 27, 2025 – cognitive skills test
• November 12 and 14, 2025 – practical assignment.

We hope the HQCJ will hold the exam on the announced dates and demonstrate quick and high-quality results of the selection process. Delays, as in the previous competition, risk derailing the process, since less than eight months remain before the mandate of the PCIE expires. 

This is already the third competition for the High Anti-Corruption Court, but this time it will be held under somewhat new rules. In particular, the updated conditions will allow the passing threshold for IQ and history of Ukrainian statehood tests to be set lower than 75% of correct answers — previously, the inability to lower this threshold led to the elimination of 64.2% of participants.

We can already see that the legislative amendments on competitions, introduced in June, are yielding positive results: 88 of the 205 applicants this year had previously taken part in competitions for appellate courts and the earlier HACC competition. It was precisely the removal in June of the one-year restriction on repeat participation that significantly broadened the pool of candidates for judicial positions at the HACC.